Early morning brain fart…

[bkisel]

I got up a little before 4AM this morning so that I could do my regular routines, prep the kitchen for the plumber/electrician/counter top guy [wife "needs" new counter tops in our 3 year old home] and rack my WE kit wine from primary to secondary. Long and the short of it in rushing to get everything done that needed to be done I lifted the now empty Brute primary bucket forgetting and not paying attention to the fact that one of my wife’s cook books was being used as a wedge to tilt the bucket back. You guessed it… Plop goes the book right into the just filled secondary bucket! The book decided to do a belly flop instead of doing a nice head first dive into the bucket. What a splash! Actually not a lot of wine was lost but man did it fly all over the place!
Except for two walls, I was fermenting in a corner of the dining room area, everything cleaned up nicely. Haven’t told my wife yet, I’m waiting till we have company this afternoon to tell her. I figure with the company of family and friends she’ll act cool about the mess on the two walls - its past 11AM now and she hasn't noticed. Also, she’s stressed out enough now with not having a working kitchen until sometime next week – that’s my story and I’m sticking to it.

 

[AZMDTed]

Oh you're screwed Time to start planning for a wine cellar with a cot in it for you. At least you're thinking outside the box. I've heard of adding raisins, zest, and all manner of oak to secondary, but this is the first time I've heard of adding a cookbook. Surely there's some good ideas in there that it might have infused.

I think we need a contest to name this batch of wine for you

 

[bkisel]

Oh you're screwed Time to start planning for a wine cellar with a cot in it for you. At least you're thinking outside the box. I've heard of adding raisins, zest, and all manner of oak to secondary, but this is the first time I've heard of adding a cookbook. Surely there's some good ideas in there that it might have infused.

I think we need a contest to name this batch of wine for you

Looks like I'll not be getting any sympathy from you, huh?

 

[Tnuscan]

It's been nice knowing you.

 

[bkisel]

BTW, I'm still waiting for my wife to get busy in another part of the house so I can try a few Googled suggestion for getting the wine blotches off the wall. What really hurts is knowing Janet she'll use this as a rational for getting the kitchen and dinning room painted. [Dinning area and kitchen are open to each other.]

Also, kicking myself in the pants for going bucket to bucket instead of bucket to carboy as I normally do.

 

[AZMDTed]

Bill,
You have plenty of sympathy from me as it reminded me of a few brain farts I've had with no doubt more to come. But I also couldn't help but chuckle at the sequence of events we sometimes find ourselves in. My brain fart yesterday was as I racked my Fourtitude to secondary. I erroneously thought I was short an airlock, so I pulled one out of a 3 gallon carboy of Chardonnay and put it on the Fourtitude. I replaced the airlock on the Chardonnay with a solid bung. I checked all my little 'boys on the way out the door this morning and the bung had popped off sometime between yesterday and today. I guess the change in weather pressure blew it off. I think, but am not sure, that I when I tucked them in last night they were all safe. Of course I had an extra airlock just as I thought I should and could have avoided it all.

Best of luck with everything. I still think there's a good name to the wine in there somewhere

Ted

 

[sour_grapes]

Best of luck, Bill, and thanks for sharing.

 

[Mismost]

The sad fact of life is women make just as many mistakes as men do, they make mistakes all the time. Men are just barely smart enough to keep our mouths tightly shut. Women on the other hand, with their elephant like memory abilities and tiger like aggression will rip you pieces and continue to do so for years to come. We men are powerless. Women control all the sex and at least half the money.

While you might want to mention this to wife, I highly suggest you don't! In fact, I never even said this stuff!! "Yeah Baby, you're right, I'm wrong." I have learned to bite my tongue and like the taste of it.

 

[cintipam]

As long as it was a vegetarian cookbook the wine should be fine. There's just too much bacteria in raw meat that could mess with your wine pretty badly. I don't know if kmeta would handle those bad boys.

I guess a dessert cook book would be ok too.

Pam in cinti

 

[bkisel]

As long as it was a vegetarian cookbook the wine should be fine. There's just too much bacteria in raw meat that could mess with your wine pretty badly. I don't know if kmeta would handle those bad boys.

I guess a dessert cook book would be ok too.

Pam in cinti

Really, I pulled the cook book out pretty quickly and actually said to myself that the five second rule applies. I was able to sneak the book out into my side of the garage, wipe it down and open it some for the pages to dry. Since we're now without a functional kitchen until next Monday I doubt she'll notice it missing from among the 40 or so cook books she has on her kitchen book shelf.

 

[cintipam]

comeon Bill. You've been around here long enough to know that to get the best help we need to know all the facts. Which wine kit was it? What color are the walls? Which cook book was it? You did say bellyflop, but was it a 1and1/2 gainer, or just a garden style too many beers poolside belly flop? Details, man, we need details!!

Pam in cinti

 

[AZMDTed]

comeon Bill. You've been around here long enough to know that to get the best help we need to know all the facts. Which wine kit was it? What color are the walls? Which cook book was it? You did say bellyflop, but was it a 1and1/2 gainer, or just a garden style too many beers poolside belly flop? Details, man, we need details!!

Pam in cinti

Also, any chance the book was written on recycled oak?

 

[cintipam]

Good catch Ted! If on oak, please don't let it be a dessert book tho. Oak would be good, but extra sugar in a red can really spoil most reds. The kit was red, right? Am I assuming too much?

Pinc

 

[roger80465]

As long as it was a vegetarian cookbook the wine should be fine. There's just too much bacteria in raw meat that could mess with your wine pretty badly. I don't know if kmeta would handle those bad boys.

I guess a dessert cook book would be ok too.

Pam in cinti

Bill, with all due respect, you are taking joeswines 'building a sauce' analogy just a bit far. But, I suspect you have covered all the options. ::

 

[bkisel]

comeon Bill. You've been around here long enough to know that to get the best help we need to know all the facts. Which wine kit was it? What color are the walls? Which cook book was it? You did say bellyflop, but was it a 1and1/2 gainer, or just a garden style too many beers poolside belly flop? Details, man, we need details!!

Pam in cinti

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. [Spots are not showing up on the wall. Probably need a close up.]

 

[AZMDTed]

Oooh, I'm sorry, Shiraz doesn't go with Vegetarian. You really needed a spicy BBQ cookbook for this kit.

 

[dcbrown73]

BTW, I'm still waiting for my wife to get busy in another part of the house so I can try a few Googled suggestion for getting the wine blotches off the wall. What really hurts is knowing Janet she'll use this as a rational for getting the kitchen and dinning room painted. [Dinning area and kitchen are open to each other.]

Also, kicking myself in the pants for going bucket to bucket instead of bucket to carboy as I normally do.

I scrubbed my closet walls (where I store mine) and I'm still going to have to re-paint the walls in there. The spots are not going away hah.

 

[cmason1957]

If it helps, my wife and I painted one room a color called something like Red Wine or Burgandy, I can get you the official name, if you want it. It hides spots really well.

 

[Boatboy24]

That's what you get for owning a vegetarian cookbook.

 

[Rodnboro]

Just tell her the counter top guy did it.